TEL AVIV – Israel’s leftwing daily Haaretz published a column this week claiming that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, boasted that his Middle East knowledge was picked up while waiting for the ski lifts. And the source for this gem of information? A satire column written for The New Yorker.

Speaking to the nation’s governors at the National Governors Association meeting at the White House on Tuesday, Barack Obama cracked a joke that implicitly referred to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death only days after Obama refused to attend the justice’s funeral.